Cattle-guard



M. SCHAFF.

CATTLE GUARD. APPLICATION FILED MAYIQ. 1920.

Patented July 19, 1921.

MICHAEL SGHAIEF, 0F RYEGATE, MONTANA.

CATTLE-GUARD.

T 0 all 10 710m it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL Sorrnrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ryegate, in the county of Musselshell and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cattle-Guards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly eflicient cattle guard, and to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention secured to certain of the ties of a railway track at a grade crossing; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a section of a railway tie having two sections of the improved cattle guard secured thereto.

The numerals 8 and l indicate, respectively, the rails and ties of a railway track, and the numeral 5 indicates a grade crossing, on each side of which is a fence 6. Both. fences have, at the gaps therein through which the railway track extends, the customary inclined I i-shaped terminals 7, which extend from the outer ends of the ties f to the tops of the adjacent ports of said fences. The improved cattle guard is of sectional formation and includes a multiplicity of forwardly inclined blades 8 secured in relatively close laterally spaced arrangement to certain of the ties l between the rails 3 and between the terminals 7. If found neces sary, several sections of the guard may be secured to the ties outward of the rails 3. Each section of the cattle guard comprises an upwardly and forwardly inclined blade 8 having a serrated upper edge 9, and formed with the lower edge thereof is a base flange 10, which extends in a horizontal Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 19, 19231.

1920. Serial No. 382,563.

plane and is secured to the top of one of the ties by spikes 11 driven into the tie through holes in said base flange.

The outer longitudinal edge portion of the base flange 10 is extended outward of the tie and bent downward into an oblique osition to afford a deflecting flange 12. ut and pressed from the blade 8 is a leg 13, the lower end of which is bent into the plane of the base flange 10 and is secured to the tie by a spike 14 driven into the tie through a hole in said leg.

From the above description, it is evident that each section of the cattle guard is formed from a single sheet of metal, thereby making the construction thereof extremely simple and of small cos to manufacture.

By the use of the improved cattle guard, cattle will not attempt to get onto the track through gaps in the fences at railway crossings.

What I claim is:

1; A. cattle guard consisting of rows of separately constructed plates carried by and secured. to adjacent cross ties, each plate comprising an upwardly and forwardly e.\' tending portion having a terminal edge spaced from the crossv tie, an intermediate member provided upon its base with a horizontal flange resting on the rear portion of the upper surface of the tie adapted to be secured thereto and a (hm'nwardly bent flange engsing the rear side of the tie.

2. A cattle guard including a pluralit of upwardly and forwardly inclined obstruction blades secured to a cross tie and having terminal. edges spaced from the tie, each of which has on its lower edge a base flange adapted to be secured. to a tie, and a leg cut and pressed from the blade intermediate the ends thereof and adapted to be secured to a tie.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL SCHAFF.

/Vitnesses:

H. G. Jaconson", BERNARD S. Kent. 

